Goodies from the Dessert Auction!

Paula Deen's Coconut Cake

One 18 1/4-ounce package yellow pudding cake mix
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups sugar
12 ounces shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 350*

Make cake by following directions on the package but substitute milk for the water. Divide and bake in three 9-inch round cake pans for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Then remove from pans.

Stir together sour cream, sugar and coconut. Spread between slightly warm layers, piercing each layer as you stack them. Store cake in container in refrigerator for 2 to 3 days. This allows cake to soak up moisture from the coconut.

On the third day, prepare icing for cake.

ICING

2 unbeaten egg whites
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons light corn syrup or 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/3 cup cold water
dash of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla (I use clear vanilla to keep the icing white)
Additional coconut to top icing (about 1/2 cup )

Place all ingredients except vanilla and additional coconut in top of a double boiler, but do not place over heat. Beat for one minute with an electric hand mixer.

Place over boiling water and cook, beating constantly, until frosting forms stiff peaks (about 7 minutes). Remove from boiling water.

Add vanilla and beat until it reaches spreading consistency (about 2 minutes).

Frost sides and then top of cake. Sprinkle with additional coconut.

Cover and store cake at room temperature.

Page 120 of The Lady and Sons Savannah Country Cookbook.

Cinnabons – Buns from Heaven

Follow this link to the recipe for "my" cinnamon rolls. They really are "buns from heaven". As my friend Monica says, "I hope heaven smells like this". . .she was referring to her cream cheese poundcake. Either one. . .heavenly!

Cinnabons – Buns from Heaven

Key Lime Cake

Trying out a key lime cake. . .Trisha Yearwood's recipe.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=10262217

One tip: my cake did not look like this! It had frosting in between the layers and on top, but none on the sides. Double the frosting recipe!!!!!!!! Either I have unrealistic expectations for how thick frosting should be on cakes or the recipe DOES NOT MAKE ENOUGH FROSTING!

Easter Lunch!

Our Easter lunch! After going to the sunrise service (at which the sun was obscured by the fog, but thankfully it was warmer than last year), I came home and got busy in the kitchen. We made ham, green beans, honey roasted carrots, mashed potatoes, garlic bread. JoAnna made sugar cookies glazed in lovely pastel colors and I made a Snickers cheesecake. It looked so good, I just had to take a picture of everything before we devoured it!

Afterwards, a food induced coma. . .